Somatic Sexuality Healing
“Remind yourself that the day you were born, your body was a cause for celebration, for love without condition, and that’s just as true today as it was then.”
“If we were to remove all of the social conditioning, the religious, racial and cultural messages forced on us, all of the generations of sexism, misogyny and shame, all the judgments and expectations of family and peers, and all the traumas we have experienced: who are we underneath all of it?
How would we inhabit our bodies in ways that reflect our true nature? How would we express and receive affection, sensuality and sexuality… on our terms… in our most genuine and authentic way? How do we recognize our desires, and attractions and identify what inhibits them? Are these real, or are these learned? What is a ideal relationship? What is the best way to break old patterns and move towards healthy intimacy? How would we identify? Where do we more accurately fall on the gender spectrum?
Ariel Giarretto and the Full Embodiment (FE) Model intend to help find ways to, and through, these questions. Decades in its formation—FE has been developed to support those who have been shamed, harmed or traumatized in relationship to their bodies, their gender/sex and to intimacy. It is especially suited for those who are reluctant to feel their bodies, who associate shame with pleasure, who have experienced sexual abuse, marginalization, sexual assault, gender or racial-based violence, bullying or religious oppression, as well as invasive medical procedures.”
This text comes from Ariel Giaretto’s website. In 2023/2025, I was trained in the Full Embodiment model and followed the Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner training with Ariel organised by Bodymind Opleidingen. I am now in the final phase.
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